_________________"If I were M. de la Viandeviande, I would now write a thirteen page post about how you have to have free will to be vegan, but modern science does not suggest any evidence for free will, therefore it is impossible to be vegan." -mumbles

There is a debate to whether or not it is actually non-fiction (first published as such, but re-released as fiction), but Mutant Message Down Under really made me look at life in a new way. I was young when I read it and I remember it having a big impact on how I viewed and reacted to certain situations in my life.

I had that C book! Except I mostly didn't use it, thus leading to my sharply abbreviated college career.

Ha! I stole that book from a guy I dated for a while. He asked for it back, he never got it back. It was one of the first books I read ('read') in my effort to decide if I really wanted to major in Comp Sci.

Unix Network programming came from one of my favorite classes in college.

And Learning Perl was the book I was handed on my first day on my job for the company that I still work for. I was told to learn Perl because I needed to do some stuff. And do some stuff I did.

_________________You are all a disgrace to vegans. Go f*ck yourselves, especially linanil.

I like the last one... the camel book was one of mine, I fell in love with Perl hard :)

My geekdom can be summarized like this (more or less, in this order):

I had that C book! Except I mostly didn't use it, thus leading to my sharply abbreviated college career.

We have three sitting on our shelf. My husband says he needs as many copies as he finds at the thrift store in case one gets damaged.

I agree with the Cosmos comment earlier, my grandfather left me the VHS tapes after he passed and it changed my worldview quite a bit. And I find it comforting now. (our baby's marker actually has a modified version of a quote from Cosmos)